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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Krufky" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] DViCO Fusion HDTV7 Dual Express
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:08:55 -0400

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Tim,

The support that I added in was for a the DViCO DVB-T Dual Express, not

the

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FusionHDTV7.

However there may be good news for you...
If your card is the FusionHDTV7 Dual Express there is support for this

card

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in the main tree (only one DVB tuner at the moment). This may not help

you

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as you stated that you needed analog support.

The easiest way for you to get the newest DVB drivers is to go to this webpage:

http://martinpitt.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/packaged-dvb-t-drivers-for-ubuntu

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-804/

You may need to install some firmware as well (you can tell if you need

to

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get the firmware by an error message in the syslog [accessed by typing "dmesg" in a terminal], this error will only show up after you try to

scan

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or tune to a channel. If you need firmware goto:
http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/
and follow the instructions inside the files (extract.sh and

readme.txt).

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Give that a go then come back, with any issues to the mailing list.

Perhaps you could create a wiki page on:

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php

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with all the relevant information on it, for an example checkout:
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DViCO_FusionHDTV_DVB-T_Dual_Express
And if you do make the page, update this page while you are at it:
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DViCO
and also: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATSC_PCIe_Cards

Regards,

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Stephen.

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Thank you for the help. I am familiar with mercurial, so I should be

able

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to figure it out.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Michael Krufky

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I apologize if this is outside the scope of the list and would

appreciate

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any help I could get offline if that makes more sense.
I have been searching online for support for this card and it looks

there

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may be support now or coming soon. I am running mythbuntu 8.04 which

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not yet include support for this card. I am a linux novice so I was wondering if you could help me add the appropriate files that will

add

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support for the card. I am a linux novice (I'm good at apt-get

install,

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but

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no so much at building my own kernel) so I may need a little bit of

hand

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holding. Any help
you could provide would be appreciated.

Side question. I thought I might have seen something about only

support

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for

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digital on this card, not analog. I am in an apartment complex that

uses an

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antiquated (very large) satellite system. It is listed with

schedules

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direct, but I am not sure if it is digital or analog.

is setting up the wrong demodulators for this card FusionHDTV7 Dual Express is supported in the v4l-dvb mercurial tree, hosted on linuxtv.org.
See http://linuxtv.org/repo for info about installing the driver into your running kernel.

Support for the card will be available out-of-the-box in the

unreleased

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kernel 2.6.27

-Mike

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Lucas" <[email protected]>
To: "Michael Krufky" <[email protected]>, [email protected], "linux

dvb" <[email protected]>

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Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] DViCO Fusion HDTV7 Dual Express
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:11:58 -0700

I tried the advice of both of the replies that I got below. I get the following in dmesg.

[   31.078478] cx23885 driver version 0.0.1 loaded
[   31.078777] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC6] enabled at IRQ 16
[   31.078782] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:00.0[A] -> Link [APC6] ->

GSI 16

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(level, low) -> IRQ 21

[   31.078795] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 18ac:d618, board: DViCO
FusionHDTV7 Dual Express [card=10,autodetected]
[   31.180458] cx23885[0]: i2c bus 0 registered
[   31.180480] cx23885[0]: i2c bus 1 registered
[   31.180499] cx23885[0]: i2c bus 2 registered
[   31.207377] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[   31.243077] cx23885[0]: frontend initialization failed
[   31.243080] cx23885_dvb_register() dvb_register failed err = -1
[   31.243081] cx23885_dev_setup() Failed to register dvb on VID_C
[   31.243085] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xb0
[   31.243091] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:08:00.0, rev: 2, irq: 21,

latency: 0, mmio: 0xfd800000

Originally a friend helped me by getting setting up the system to

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look for

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the old dvico fusion 5 card.
I put

options cx23885 card=4

in /etc/modprobe.d/options. The system would recognize that I had a

card

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with two feeds, but I could get channels on the scan. I commented

out this

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line and then tried installing the deb package, but lost support of the card.
I tried installing from source, but that didn't help. I tried

installing

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the firmware as recommended, but it still didn't help.
At some point it recognized only one feed, still couldn't get channels

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the scan. Then I lost the card completely. I admit that I just

started

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trying suggestions and was probably not systematic enough. I may need

to

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scrap the install and start over. Since the box is new, that is not

a big

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deal. It probably wouldn't take very long to reinstall.

I have some questions. Will there be support for both tuners? The old driver seemed to support 2, so I would hope the new one would too.

Will

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this card not work with analog channels or has support just not been

written

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yet? If I do have analog channels, what should the settings be?

Would one

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of those digital converter boxes make it a digital signal? (That is

probably

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a dumb question, but this is not really my area.)

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Thanks for all of your help.

      --Tim

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Tim,

Can you take a high resolution photo of the card and create a wiki page

with this card?

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Also provide a list of the chips (as on the card), for example cx23885.

I mainly want to now

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the demodulators that are in use on the card as the driver has two

possible paths in the code

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depending on which demodulator is installed. Which one is it: S5H1411 or

S5H1409 or something

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else? From the low resolution photos on the DViCO site there should be

two of these chips

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roughly in the middle of the card side by side.

It doesnt matter -- I have both versions of this board, the 1409 and the 1411 version.

The boards are identical, other than the newer demodulator.

Both boards are supported. Both frontend paths are supported.

You need to use the v4l-dvb mercurial *tip* for full support. Older revisions will only support one tuner.

You also need the xc5000 firmware placed into the correct location (usually /lib/firmware)

I added support for these boards and they are both running fine in my mythtv-backend for digital atsc and qam recordings.

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Regards,

Mike

Tim,

Since Mike has these cards I let him help you out, sorry if I have

confused you.

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I have just checked the package that i referenced as well and it is indeed

missing the proper support required for your card.

Stephen,

Feel free to continue helping him -- I just stated the facts ... There is no need for any photos or any kind of research in order to support this board -- I already have been there and done that -- it's already fully supported.

--EXCEPT for analog.

He needs to use hg tip if he wants digital to work.

...meanwhile, he needs analog, because he's using some internal analog video network. I think he's screwed. Sorry, tim.

If you want to use the board to receive ATSC digital television from the air, or Clear QAM Annex-B digital cable, then you're golden.

-Mike

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Is there any reason why analog cannot be supported? The website for the card says that it supports analog. I know this means that someone needs to write the drivers, but it might not be that difficult to update the driver from another dvico card where analog works. I could just do the digital over the air signal and record the locals for now (which are actually the most important ones for me), but I'm sure others would want this support. I bought this card with the intention of upgrading my cable service when I move, I'm only going to be living here for 11 more months. My intent was to get a dvr running while I had this free non-upgradeable cable service.

Tim,

Please, do NOT top-post. This is the policy of this mailing list.

I did not say that analog can not be supported. I said that analog IS not supported.

If somebody gets analog working, I'm sure that everybody will be happy about it. I'd like to see analog working on the cx23885 cards, too.

-Mike

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